Chinese skill review

Chinese skill. It's a decent app. Here's my unpaid review of the thing. It is very similar to Duolingo, in that it uses pictures and audio to help in learning basic words in mandarin. Also like Duolingo, Chinese Skill starts with words in phrases that are somewhat easy to learn but which I do feel/think I will ever use. These are phrases like "I am a man." or "You are a girl". I figure this information should be pretty obvious, and I think people will look weird at me if I said "I am man" in a conversation with them. I'm looking for words and phrases that I could use in my first conversation, and perhaps Chinese Skill is not meant to prepare me for that. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe I'm too harsh on these language-learning apps because I expect something different of them. There is one definite benefit of these types of apps: the way they teach gets the words into my head and they stick better. Some improvements would be if I could have the Spaced Repetition functionality in there and also the Streak functionality. That would make the app more useful.